Cuba News

The Federation of Culinary Associations of the Republic of Cuba and the Cocinarte Academy of Gastronomy in Santiago de Cali, Colombia, signed an agreement to build closer ties and collaboration.

Cuban police detained dozens of dissidents, beat up others, blocked their telephones and sealed off their homes Tuesday to forestall a string of protests and other gatherings planned to mark International Human Rights Day.

Lawmakers scurried Tuesday to avoid failing to pass a defense authorization bill for the first time in more than a half-century, as the nation's top military commander warned that further delay might imperil U.S. troops stationed around the globe.

One name stands out on the guest list of thousands of youth at a conference in Ecuador this week: Elian Gonzalez.

President Barack Obama shook hands with Cuban President Raul Castro Tuesday at a memorial service for Nelson Mandela, a simple gesture that, while promptly downplayed by the White House, created a furor in Washington among critics of the Cuban regime.

Havana: For sure it's just what Mandela would have wanted, but does it amount to more than that? The historic handshake between US President Barack Obama and Cuba's Raul Castro at a memorial for Nelson Mandela on Tuesday was greeted on the streets of Cuba with surprise and hopes of improved relations.

In this image from TV, President Obama shakes hands with Cuban President Raul Castro at the memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg on Tuesday.

A federal court has declined to get involved in a dispute over medical care for an obese prisoner in declining health at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

Two congressional committees have agreed to make it easier for the Pentagon to transfer Guantanamo Bay prisoners to their home countries, surpassing a major hurdle in the Obama administration's ability to close the facility.

From a very young age, Irma CastaA eda has braided her curly hair and cared for it with natural recipes inherited from her mother, ignoring the widespread conception that Black women's hair is "ugly" or "bad."

Two students take photographs in front of Havana University after arriving in Cuba on Monday aboard the MV Explorer cruise ship.

HAVANA, Cuba , December, www.cubanet.org - Pedro YA nez, an honest and decent man, led a quiet life with his wife and two small sons in a humble house built almost completely by him, on 19th Street in Santa Fe.

Archival photos show how Vancouverites of yesteryear weren't much better prepared for snow than they are today.

In this June 30, 2010 file photo, Elian Gonzalez attends an official event with Cuba's President Raul Castro in Havana, Cuba.

While the governments of the United States, Britain and Israel provided support to South Africa's arpatheid regime, the Cuban Revolution helped the anti-apartheid forces, sending thousands of volunteers in the 1970s and '80s to help Angolan forces defeat the apartheid regime's war on their country.

A well-known lawyer based in St. Johnsbury travels across Vermont to Burlington this week to talk about representing a client who is imprisoned at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train rolled into the Anderson LRT station Saturday night, as part of a special concert to raise awareness for local food bank programs.

Diplomatic sources claim that at a recent dinner, the minister of foreign affairs of Laos, Thongloun Sisoulith, waxed indignant about America's abduction of hundreds of individuals from around the world.

According to TMZ.com, Paris threatened Lindsay via Twitter after Lindsay was alleged to have ordered a Miami Beach beat-down on Paris' younger bro Barron .

One hundred and fifteen days, 16 countries, three continents and a lifetime of memories.